Accounting Supervisor

Department Overview

PG&E’s Controller’s Organization provides Budgeting, Forecasting, Accounting, Reporting, and Tax services. It is responsible for developing processes, systems, and controls over critical finance functions. All of these services are critical to a company with over $60 billion in assets and over $15 billion in annual revenues.

Corporate Accounting provides accurate and timely delivery of company’s consolidated financial statements and supports the filing of SEC Forms 10Q and 10K as well as FERC Forms 1, 2, and 3Q. The Energy Accounting team, within Corporate Accounting, is responsible for regulatory accounting and cost recovery. The team helps co-workers understand relevant accounting topics and implications to their functional area, research complex accounting issues, implements accounting standards and regulatory directives, including the creation of company accounting policies and recording transactions.

Position Summary

The Supervisor, Accounting oversees the regulatory accounting processes such as month-end close, account reconciliations, controls, and internal and external reporting deliverables. You will partner with co-workers from other departments to support budget versus actuals comparisons and regulatory filings related to PG&E’s cost recovery. You will be a highly visible role with opportunities to collaborate with co-workers at all levels within and outside of the Controller’s Organization which can lead to long-time career growth within the Company.

The position is hybrid, working primarily from your remote home office and the Oakland General Office in-person one day a week on average or based on business needs. This is subject to change should company requirements change.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is:

• Bay Area Minimum: $114,000
• Bay Area Maximum: $182,000

Job Responsibilities

• Reviews and approves journal entries, account reconciliations, reporting deliverables, controls, and regulatory filings, including the development and documentation of processes, guidelines, standards, and analytics.
• Initiates basic continuous improvement projects, to include partnering with peers and working with stakeholder departments, and reviews and approves all recommendations, controls, process flows and implementation plans.
• Leads complex or analytically intensive research for complex accounting issues, identifies relationships and linkages to regulatory decisions, and reviews and approves results and conclusions.
• Ensures cross training for all employees to facilitate knowledge transfer and provides training and coaching to team members.
• Leads small team of analysts, managing their day-to-day activities and reviewing and approving priorities and work products.
• Establishes, builds and maintains productive relationships throughout the organization and with external parties, including regulators and industry groups.
• Supervises team of analysts. Supervises staff to drive performance and accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, and rewards and recognition.
• Acts as a witness or witness assistance for routine to moderately complex regulatory proceedings including developing and reviewing input to testimony, work papers, exhibits, and data responses; testifying at proceedings; participating in workshops; reviewing and analyzing regulatory developments and decisions.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• BS/BA degree in Accounting or related discipline or equivalent related experience.
• 5 years of related experience.
• 1 year of experience leading or indirectly leading teams.

Desired:

• 6 years of Accounting experience.
• Strong interpersonal and team collaboration skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills and proven ability to analyze and interpret data and effectively communicate findings.
• Good prioritization skills to effectively manage multiple projects with demanding time constraints.
• Knowledge of project management, process improvement methods and techniques, and change management to lead projects.
• Expert knowledge of SAP accounting modules.
• Knowledge of the regulatory environment and the utility and energy industry operations.
• General knowledge of cost allocation, rate policy development, rate theory, rate case process, revenue requirements, regulatory accounting, and tariffs.
• Ability to adapt to changing business needs, conditions, and work responsibilities.
• Good influence skills to effectively gain buy-in from various stakeholders.
• Good supervisory and planning skills to oversee day to day activities.